Constitutional Brinksmanship

Amending the Constitution by National Convention
ISBN13: 9780195055733ISBN10: 019505573X Hardback, 264 pages
Dec 1988,  In Stock

Price:

$98.00 (06)
Named an Outstanding Academic Book of 1989-1990 by Choice

Description

In this first systematic study of the legal problems relating to the convention clause, Russell Caplan shows that repeated constitutional crises have given rise to state drives for a national convention nearly every twenty years since the Constitution was enacted. He deftly examines the politics of constitutional brinksmanship between Congress and the states to reveal the ongoing tension between state and federal rights and constitutional tradition and reform.

Product Details

264 pages; 5-1/2 x 9-1/4; ISBN13: 978-0-19-505573-3ISBN10: 0-19-505573-X

About the Author(s)

Russell L. Caplan, Attorney, US Department of Justice

Add to Cart button
Add to Cart button

Consider these titles...

Rethinking the New Deal Court

$45.00 Paperback Jan 1998

Outrageous Invasions

$65.00 Hardback Feb 2010
Celebrities are routinely subjected to stalking, harassment, invasion of privacy, and defamation. In this book, Professor Robin D. Barnes examines the role and nature of privacy in Western democracies.

International Territorial Administration

$60.00 Paperback Dec 2009
The first comprehensive treatment of international territorial administration, covering the League of Nations in Danzig during the inter-war period to the UN in East Timor recently and Kosovo today.